everything is cool in Japan, even politics.

I was taking a break from my gay vocab "quiz". I'm going to try to use the word "ambiguous" atleast once a day. Anyway, so I was taking a break and checking out Google News, and the first thing I see is, Victory for the bold: Koizumi crushes his election enemies. I was like, "whoaaa okay, this has to be cool!". I don't personally like politics, but hey come on.... its Junichiro Koizumi!!! ...Anyway, so I'm reading this ariticle, and it's like a friggin movie in my head! Not just any movie, action packed! Just read this,

Of the 37 "rebels" — the former LDP polticians who were expelled from the party after voting against Mr Koizumi’s postal privatisation Bills — only around 15 were expected to win their seats against the “assassins” — celebrity candidates dispatched by the Prime Minister as official LDP candidates to crush the dissenters.

Among the successful assassins were Yuriko Koike, the female Environment Minister who defeated the rebel MP Koki Kobayashi in his central Tokyo constituency. Also victorious were Satsuki Katayama, a former beauty queen and finance official, and Makiko Fujino, a television chef known as the “charismatic housewife”.

However, Takafumi Horie, a young internet entrepreneur noted for resemblance to a cartoon cat, was defeated in Hiroshima prefecture by the arch-rebel, Shizuka Kamei.

Despite a long term decline in interest in elections, turn out was 67 per cent — 7 per cent higher than at the last poll. In a measure of the swing towards the LDP, one in five of Democratic Party supporters polled in the constituency admitted that they had voted for Ms Koike. “Unfortunately, the public believes postal reform is equal to progress in reforming Japan,” the defeated Mr Kobayashi said. “Such a trend makes it difficult for voters to cast their ballots for candidates who think otherwise.”

Mr Koizumi’s genius was to fight the election as a referendum on a single issue — postal reform — and to ask voters whether they were for him or against him. He succeeded in portraying himself as a valiant reformer doing battle against a nefarious enemy: not the official Opposition, but the ex-LDP rebels.

Just goes to prove how Japan is all-round coool, well maybe cept for those crazy sex fanatics.
Man... I really need to watch some Japanese baseball.